Nicki Minaj

The UK’s Lady Leshurr’s song “Queen Speech” ultimately celebrates black womanhood and independence, just like Beyonce and Nicki Minaj’s “Feeling Myself,” that also celebrates feminine dominance, resisting the typical white patriarchy. Female rappers have always been existent, however, are less successful and known than their male counterparts in this industry merely because hip hop culture is stereotypically masculinized due to its powerful and tough messages its music sends, qualities that…

Media Study Skills - Is Nicki Minaj a positive role model for young black females? In a year when cultural appropriation, police brutality against African-Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement have been illuminated, black girls must have a role model. Nicki Minaj is one of the most famous black female artists in the world right now, but is she a good role model? This essay compares the negative and positive aspects of the image she portrays. The essay will also consider the lack of…

The three music videos I have chosen are “For Everybody” by Juicy J, “All Eyes On You” by Meek Mill, and “Earned It” by The Weeknd. For the first music video, “For Everybody,” the cast is very diverse except for the artists who are all African-American. However, the women in the video are of all different cultures. The video portrays women as objects as they just walk about and flaunt their mostly naked bodies on the screen. Not only does the video portray the women as objects, but the…

Females like Nicki Minaj predominately use sex to sell their music, instead of being a voice to uplift a generation of young aspiring women, it impacts them creating a mindset that limits their capabilities to be set more on looks than knowledge. To create such music can…

Patrol Officer that was in charge, Sergeant Tupac Shakur then briefed me on the situation at hand. According to Sergeant Tupac Shakur, he was dispatched to 306 Oak Street for the reason that Bob Marley had not seen or spoken to his daughter Nicki Aaliyah Minaj since the evening of Friday, April 15th, 2017. I later learned that this was highly uncommon seeing that Haughton remained in contact with the family on a constant basis. Sergeant Tupac Shakur said that Bob Marley told him after calling…

The ultimate standard of beauty is the hourglass curved female body. The prior statement is truth according to hegemonic ideology conditioning by society. Corsets and waist trainers are pop culture manifestations and embodiments of the “ideal woman” ideology. Waist trainers are constantly endorsed and promoted by female celebrities. The behavior of female celebrity waist training endorsement further promotes the ideology of a perfect female physique. Corsets have been a part of women’s lives…

a power struggle and the desire to assert and maintain control over them. Today in popular culture, a key figure that reflects the continuation of such representation while also presenting us with subversive re-framings, is female rap sensation Nicki Minaj. In medicine and pop culture, there have…

Dre - In this ad Beats chose to use Nicki Minaj as the main character. The setting is in Nicki’s dressing room and she is about to walk out and there is a guy in there and she says if you wanna play your own music just tap my pill and as she walks out the guy says okay right after I text back another girl. As soon as he says that the pill comes to life and starts yelling at him saying you cant be texting other girls and starts ratting him out yelling for Nicki and the guy says keep it down and…

Social Media: Society’s disease Have you been infected by the disease of social media? Social media allows easy access to connect with anyone, from your next door neighbor to your ex best friend Sally from the third grade. Even though social media helps us interact with each other it also has a negative side. For example, plastic surgery, cyberbullying, and glamourizing alcohol and drug use are some of the negative effects that social media has on society. One negative effect that social media…

seen as a means of survival, conquest, and a ticket to getting whatever you from someone. The media and songs that people produce and listen to in this day and age do not dispute this ideal. For example Hip Hop songs like Lil Wayne’s Lollipop and Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda support the Burrell’s theory…